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Forgetfulness: What is "normal" memory loss?
Are you experiencing normal memory loss or dementia?
The rules that guide a normal memory make it nearly impossible to accept memory loss in others.
Functional deactivation of the posteromedial cortex (PMC) seems to be a physiologic process underlying normal memory.
Little is known about the initial stages of information processing in amnesia as compared to normal memory.
When Small proposes that the "giant, complex thing called normal memory decline could be accounted for by a single molecule," Halpern is stunned.
Therefore, the study of therapies and mechanisms promoting normal memory maintenance might help to design specific programs to improve memory in disease status, such as Alzheimer's.
Moreover, says Wilson, research that identifies particular molecules at work in memory could eventually lead to techniques for reducing memory loss or even for improving normal memory.
That reinforces the idea that age-related memory decline is different and suggests that flavanols might not help Alzheimer's, even though they might delay normal memory loss.
"Virtually everyone over the age of 40 is worried about memory, and it's not easy to distinguish the normal memory decline of aging from early Alzheimer's," he says.
More important, most studies of implicit memory in amnesia (and normal memory, too) concern repetition priming, as exemplified by stem-completion and fragment-completion tests.
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